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How do you respond when a donor asks about how much of their dollars go to funding your overhead?

For many folks, this can be a tricky question and one that brings some tension to the conversation.

Well, in this week’s episode, Peter Drury from Splash shares a terrific tip on answering the question about your overhead ratio. And perhaps after you watch the video, you will actually WANT donors to ask you that question.

Under an agreement with New York’s attorney general, the charity will modify the language of online appeals to give contributors more information about whether their gifts will go directly to victims of particular disaster or finance general Red Cross operations.

4 Interview Questions You Have To Ask | The NonProfit Times: All job seekers should know that the way they present themselves in a job interview can go a long way to determining whether or not they get the job. What might not be as obvious is that asking the right questions is a big part of making a good impression.

Job interview questions are essential as they show the employer you have genuine interest in the position. Even worse than asking no questions, however, is asking questions that show you have done no research about the job or the organization. With this in mind, it’s important that you create a list of questions you want to ask before the interview, much in the same way you would prepare key talking points.

The key stat though, for me, is that just 7% said they support a charity because a charity asked them to. Considering the public believe charities spend 25% of their income on fundraising and say 22% is acceptable, surely there’s an imbalance. 22% of money to get 7% of donors?

Our Opinion: OHSU hits the field running to win big time: aking Oregon a trendsetter in philanthropy would be another side benefit if OHSU is able to pull this off. The clock, however, is already ticking, and the outcome is less than certain. People involved with philanthropy say the quickest route to success would be to tap people with the ability to give $1 million or more.

This list could include OHSU’s current major donors, other foundations and contributors who’ve never been approached before. Also, according to the experts, it could include Nike suppliers and athletes who’ve been helped by Nike along the way — a potential source of nonconventional donors.

But since its annual Terror in the Junkyard haunted hayride started 13 years ago - bringing in an annual profit of about $15,000 - the fire company has quit the traditional money-making methods and focuses its fundraising efforts solely on the month of October.

NCVO income grew by �1.5m in last financial year: The merger of NCVO and Volunteering England helped NCVO end the last financial year with an income uplift of �1.5m – though even without the VE revenue, the umbrella body grew its income by 14 per cent during the year.

Monday, October 21, 2013

Upheaval at Heinz Endowments raises eyebrows | TribLIVE: Turmoil is mounting at The Heinz Endowments, the region's second-biggest foundation, with the resignation of its president and reports that the Heinz family's environmental center in Washington is on the brink of closure, members of the nonprofit community say.

But much of that could come to a halt early next year if the Michigan Gaming Control Board goes through with proposed rule changes that would effectively eliminate permanent charity poker rooms. Officials say the rule changes address problems with gaming violations and crimes at some poker rooms while making sure charities' best interests are protected.

Voluntourism: The perks and pitfalls � The Boar: Voluntourism is an increasingly popular form of travel which allows us to travel to exotic and culturally rich countries, whilst helping raise money for charity. While the idea of jetting off to such interesting places and exploring far off destinations is highly appealing and entices many of us into enrolling in voluntourism, there are many things that are not so appealing when you actually arrive on these charity adventures.

This summer, a group of Warwick RAG students set off to Peru and, although we had the time of our lives, there were some definite bumps in the road along our journey to the land of the Incas.

Dave Clark, Colette Hadley and Ernesto Paredes: Nonprofit Compensation: Why is it acceptable to pay for-profit CEO (and related staff) so much more than nonprofit CEOs (and related staff)? How does this affect the nonprofits' ability to recruit and keep the best and brightest to take on society’s most challenging issues? How does this affect the nonprofits' ability to meet the challenges of the communities they serve?

A charity hires a special event consultant to run their annual fundraising gala. All the information gathered for the gala is collected by the consultant and housed on spreadsheets. But no one from the organization has thought to enter the information into the donor database for current evaluation or future use.

Can Email Move Us to Give? - SankyNet - Integrated fundraising for nonprofits: Email fundraising is a learned craft. And it's a very tough one. In just a few words, we must tell a story that will quickly and deeply resonate. In an email, every single word we use is precious. Every single phrase is potentially powerful— and potentially deadly. There is no margin to misstep or even settle for something that's just OK. One bad choice and you may lose your donor or prospect to the black hole of the "unsubscribe" button forever.

Fortunately, many fundraisers do seem to be learning the craft, and learning it well. Last we did the math, the amount of money being raised via email in the U.S. was numbering in the billions of dollars.